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AI/ML Engineer

$120k to $200k

San FranciscoFull-timePosted Oct 26, 2026

Against the San Francisco typical range

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an AI/ML team building tools to make production AI agents more reliable. You will own the intelligence that identifies agent failures, assesses confidence, and checks whether proposed fixes work.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Detect subtle failures, including omissions, compliant but incorrect responses, and patterns that emerge across large volumes of traces.
  • Turn user behavior signals, such as rephrasing, abandonment, and retries, into evidence of agent failures.
  • Build evaluation methods to measure detection precision when labeled ground truth is limited or unavailable.
  • Make patch generation trustworthy by reproducing failures, verifying proposed fixes, and avoiding low-confidence changes.
  • Improve the cost efficiency of detection, choosing appropriate models and approaches for each event.
  • Review production customer traces regularly to identify problems and opportunities for improvement.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • Demonstrated AI/ML engineering experience; candidates with 0 to 10 years of experience are welcome, including new graduates and people without a traditional degree.
  • Hands-on experience using LLMs in production, including evaluations, LLM-as-judge, embeddings, and deciding when a smaller model or no model is appropriate.
  • An individual-contributor engineering background and a track record of shipping products that people use.
  • Strong research judgment and the ability to distinguish meaningful improvements from noise, especially when ground truth is unavailable.
  • Experience running agents in production and learning from their failures is a plus.

COMPENSATION

& BENEFITS Base salary: $120,000 to $200,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, United States.

Description copied from Clera's careers page. Read the full posting before you apply.

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